Hi Lydia,
1. I want to put a note in the upper right hand corner of page 2 of the same score withoutI do not have enough time right now to try and understand what you mean by that, sorry.going through rigamarole of copying a new file just for the last system of the score.There must be an easy way to include an annotation on p. 2. I have included the note on p.2 [Kievan Resurrection Lord I Call Tone 1 Verse 4] by using a cut and paste method,but there must be an easy way to simply incorporate that command within the lilypond file.
2. Also - how can I bring the words in a system closer together? Example in 3rd system “Sing” in gladness. I wouldlike “in gladness" to be brought closer to “Sing”.
This requires some thought, since obviously there are very few notes in that line, and Lilypond is smart enough to give more space to the half notes than to the quarter notes. Where do you want the space to go that you do _not_ want to have between "Sing" and "in gladness"?
Do you insist on having line breaks only at barlines? If not, then the task becomes much easier. This is what I did in the attached example.
3. I wish the line for the third word in the cadence would extend for the 4 notes “lov — er” of man.
This reason the line is so short is that your lyrics are aligned to the alto voice, and Lilypond stretches the line (roughly) along note heads. (But in the alto voice, there is only one note, so the line ends immediately.)
Hence, the easiest solution would be to assign the lyrics to the soprano voice. If you're not fine with that, one might resort to tricks involving invisible noteheads etc. But for the moment, I went with assigning the lyrics to the soprano line.
When you answer my querries, please remember that some of us are not computer languagesavy. Please include the example of the complete file for me. I appreciate that. :-)
I also cleaned up your file a little for you. Do try and compare your and my version thoroughly, chances are that you can understand much about Lilypond when doing so.
Yours is a bit of a hodgepodge of templates in various code styles for very old Lilypond versions. Today, we can do things a little bit easier.
Lukas
\version "2.18.2" \paper { top-margin = 12 left-margin = 18 right-margin = \left-margin markup-system-spacing.basic-distance = 10 system-system-spacing.basic-distance = 15 last-bottom-spacing.basic-distance = 10 } \layout { \omit Staff.TimeSignature \set Timing.timing = ##f % The following two commands add an (invisible) bar line after every note, % so Lilypond may add line breaks where they fit best. \set Timing.defaultBarType = "" \set Timing.barAlways = ##t } \header { title = "Kievan Resurrection Lord I Call Tone 1" opus = "Arr. by B. Ledkovsky - Adapted by L. Westerberg" piece = \markup \huge\bold {"(4)"} } global = { \key g \major } #(set-global-staff-size 23) words = \lyricmode { Be glad __ O __ hea -- vens! Sound trum_ -- pets O foun -- da -- tions of the earth! Sing in glad -- ness, O moun -- tains. Be -- hold Em -- man -- u -- el has nailed our sins to the Cross. Grant -- ing life, __ he has slain death. \once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT \markup{He has resurrected} Adam as the lov __ er of man. } sopMusic = \relative c'' { a4 a2( b2) a4(fis4) g4( fis4) e2 \bar "|" fis4 g4 g4 g4 fis4 g2 g4 a4 a4 fis2 \bar "|" a2 a4 a4 a4 a4 g2 fis2 \bar "|" g4 g4 g4 g4 g4 g4 g4 fis2 g2 a2 g4 g4 fis2 \bar "|" a4 a4 a2(b2) a4 fis4 g4(fis4) e2 \bar "|" a4 a4 g4 fis4 g4(a2 g4 fis2) e4 d4 e1 \bar "|." } altoMusic = \relative c' { fis4 fis2(g2) fis4(d4) d2 b2 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d2 d4 d4 d4 d2 fis2 fis4 fis4 fis4 fis4 d2 d2 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d2 d2 d2 d4 d4 d2 fis4 fis4 fis2(g2) fis4 d4 d2 b2 fis'4 fis4 g4 d4 d1. d4 a4 cis1 } tenorMusic = \relative c' { d4 d1 c4(a4) b4(a4) g2 a4 b4 b4 b4 a4 b2 b4 c4 c4 a2 c2 c4 c4 c4 c4 b2 a2 b4 b4 b4 b4 b4 b4 b4 a2 b2 c2 b4 b4 a2 d4 d4 d1 c4 a4 b4(a4) g2 c4 c4 b4 a4 b4( c2 b4 a2) g4 fis4 a1 } bassMusic = \relative c { d4 d2(g2) d2 g4(d4) e2 d4 g4 g4 g4 d4 g2 g4 d4 d4 d2 d2 d4 d4 d4 d4 g2 d2 g4 g4 g4 g4 g4 g4 g4 d2 g2 fis2 g4 g4 d2 d4 d4 d2( g2) d4 d4 g4(d4) e2 d4 d4 d4 d4 g4( fis2 g4 d2) d4 d4 a1 } \score { \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff << \new Voice = "sopranos" { \voiceOne << \global \sopMusic >> } \\ << \global \altoMusic >> >> \new Lyrics \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-affinity = #CENTER } \lyricsto "sopranos" \words \new Staff \with { \clef bass } << << \global \tenorMusic >> \\ << \global \bassMusic >> >> >> }
Kievan Tone 1 Verse 4.pdf
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